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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)
hand that wrote it is mingling with the dust. Should it be the means of advancing even one single hour the inevitable progress of truth and justice, I would not exchange the consciousness for all Rothschild's wealth or Sir Walter's fame. John G. Whittier, in his preface to Mrs. Child's Letters, published in 1883, wrote, concerning this appeal: It is quite impossible for any one of the present generation to imagine the popular surprise and indignation which this book called forth, or how entiot be more happily situated than in Friend Hopper's family. Friend Hopper, as she called him, according to the custom among friends in addressing a person older than yourself, was Isaac T. Hopper, whose remarkable life she afterwards wrote. Whittier calls this one of the most readable biographies in English literature. During her stay in New York, which continued, contrary to all expectation, until 1849 or 1850, she wrote a series of letters to the Boston Courier, edited by Joseph Buckingh